CD of 8.1

[sizemj]

I have looked but cannot seem to find a answer. I have two questions about 8.1 install media.

1. Why does 8.1 only have one install CD.

2. Does the doc install not install the FreeBSD handbook to /usr/share/doc/handbook? What I have read in the handbook and on forums says that it does I do not see the handbook anywhere on the DVD/CD

Thanks for any help

 

[Beastie]

Why does 8.1 only have one install CD.

Hmm, because it doesn't need more? The install fits in less than 300 MB maybe.

Does the doc install not install the FreeBSD handbook to /usr/share/doc/handbook? What I have read in the handbook and on forums says that it does I do not see the handbook anywhere on the DVD/CD

It's available on disc1 and the DVD as packages (e.g. en-freebsd-doc-blabla.tbz), so you install it like you do any other package (i.e. using pkg_add(1)).

 

[sizemj]

I see, I did not know that the handbook was a package. I just see that on older version of FreeBSD there are more than one CD. I guess that answers my questions.

 

[Beastie]

Ah, yes. Documentation - books (including the Handbook) and articles - weren't packaged in the past. That's a post-7.x thing.
Same goes with the number of discs. Pre-7.x releases used to have 3 disks, part of the first was for the base installation and all 3 contained software packages. Post-7.x, all software packages were removed and documentation packages were added, so the only thing left was disc1. Software packages are still available on the DVD though.